Recently, an alumni couple from the Class of 1988 of the Electronic Engineering Department of our university donated 400,000 shares of stock (with a market value exceeding RMB 10 million) to the university and established the Baidu Fund. The donation signing ceremony was held at the Shenzhen Aerospace Micro-Motor Building. Xu Minqiang, Secretary of the University Party Committee, accepted the donation on behalf of Dalian Maritime University. Guan Xiaoguang, Chairman of the Liaoning Province Dalian Maritime University Education Development Foundation (hereinafter referred to as the Foundation) and Director of the University Party and Government Office, signed the donation agreement with the alumni. He Lixin, Secretary-General of the Shenzhen Alumni Association, and representatives of some alumni in Shenzhen attended the ceremony, which was presided over by Xu Dejiang, Secretary-General of the Foundation and Director of the University Alumni Affairs and Student Employment Office.

Xu Minqiang expressed sincere gratitude and high esteem to the two alumni for their noble and benevolent act of cherishing and repaying their Alma Mater on behalf of the university. He stated that the two alumni have embarked on independent entrepreneurship in the semiconductor industry and achieved remarkable accomplishments, which demonstrates the outstanding contributions made by the university’s alumni to the country’s self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology in the electronic information field. He elaborated on Dalian Maritime University’s development and construction in recent years, and noted that the Dalian Maritime University is currently thoroughly formulating its 15th Five-Year Plan, and fully advancing the construction of a world-class research-oriented maritime university with domestic top-tier standards. This donation has injected strong impetus into the university’s development and construction. Dalian Maritime University will cherish and make prudent use of the donation, effectively boost the development of Dalian Maritime University’s undertakings, and live up to the alumni’s generous support and earnest expectations for the university’s development. As a classmate of the two alumni, Xu Minqiang also fondly recalled the bits and pieces of studying and living together with them at Dalian Maritime University, and sincerely invited the alumni to return to their Alma Mater often.

The donating alumni shared their personal growth and career development journey since graduation, as well as the current operation status of their company. They stated that the education and cultivation received from Dalian Maritime University have exerted a profound and lasting impact on their growth and development. This donation is, on the one hand, an expression of gratitude to their teachers, and they hope to make a modest contribution to the development of Dalian Maritime University; on the other hand, they also aim to inspire more alumni to repay and support Dalian Maritime University in diverse ways through this innovative donation method.

During the roundtable discussion, representatives of alumni in Shenzhen briefed on the development of their respective industries, and put forward sincere suggestions and conducted in-depth exchanges on the university’s future development and construction.

It is reported that the alumni have made a one-time gratuitous donation of 400,000 tradable shares of a listed company held by them to the university foundation, which will be mainly used to support Dalian Maritime University in carrying out scientific research and technological innovation focusing on major national strategic issues. This is the first stock donation received by a university foundation in Liaoning Province, marking a new breakthrough in the charitable donation model for universities and exploring an entirely new path for social forces to support the development of higher education.